Debian 8 DSA-3347-1 Critical: Upgrade pdns To Prevent DoS Attacks
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September 2, 2015
Pyry Hakulinen and Ashish Shakla at Automattic discovered that pdns, an authoritative DNS server, was incorrectly processing some DNS packets; this would enable a remote attacker t...
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Summary
Pyry Hakulinen and Ashish Shakla at Automattic discovered that pdns,
an authoritative DNS server, was incorrectly processing some DNS
packets; this would enable a remote attacker to trigger a DoS by
sending specially crafted packets causing the server to crash.
For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.4.1-4+deb8u3.
For the testing distribution (stretch) and unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.4.6-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your pdns packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
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Package: pdns
CVE ID: CVE-2015-5230
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